DevOps Engineer

Initial 4-month DevOps Engineer opportunity

Location: Flexible hybrid in Houston, TX (team meets in the office 1 day per week)

Duration: Initial 4-month contract with high potential to extend/convert based on performance

Pay Rate: $58-61/hr W2, open to C2C, Self-Corporation candidates as well
• Job #: 15111

Must-Have Skills:
• Harness (most important)
• AWS
• Github actions
• IT background required

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:
• Experienced in an enterprise architecture team
• Provide industry-leading thought leadership and facilitate development of strategies across multiple subject areas/domains
• Facilitate development of architecture patterns and standards
• Consult in design of sophisticated enterprise initiatives and provide guidance to project teams
• Run enterprise architecture models and repositories
• Collaborate with other stakeholders in the IT division to evaluate business goals, identify business problems and propose solutions
• Develop and maintain the centralized EA repository and artifacts
• Enable strategic and transitional planning of applications, technology, information and business functions
• Participate in the design of business, information and technology architectures on the basis of cost, functionality and practicality
• Research, identify and recommend industry standard processes for solving business and technology problems
• Provide guidance to others

Qualifications

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
• Bachelors degree, preferably in Information Technology or Business or equivalent experience, education, or training
• Experience in business, information or technology architecture
• Experience in leading technical staff or coordinating work across multiple technology teams
• Ability to make insightful, successful business decisions and tradeoffs assessing the internal and external business landscape, strategies, opportunities, strengths and weaknesses. Involves knowledge of the industry – and awareness of the key trends shaping the future of the corporation
• The ability to define new, original ideas and efficiently implement them across an organization. Involves an ability to think “outside-in”, assess conventional work products and processes, define new concepts, and handle change across the organization in implementing them
• Engage and enroll others in an initiative – both individually and in a group setting. Involves articulating the new possibility for others – and leading and engaging others in direct, positive, meaningful conversations
• Maintain perspective and establish context. Involves being able to recognize patterns and predict outcomes – and leverage them to redirect personal and/or team work effort in the efficient direction
• Visualize and plan for outcomes in the future, and sustain work in achieving the outcomes. Involves an ability to support short-term trade-offs in order to achieve longer term gain
• The ability to communicate verbally and in writing with all levels of employees and management, capable of successful formal and informal communication. Involves an ability to speak and write clearly and understandably at the right level
• Involves demonstrating a dedication to growing knowledge and skills in current technical/functional area, keeping up to date on technical developments, staying informed as to industry practices, knowing how to apply relevant technical processes to appropriate business needs
• Involves being widely trusted, being seen as a direct, candid individual, can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner, keeps confidences, admits mistakes, and doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal gain
• The ability to successfully run multiple competing work efforts across multiple teams. Involves assessing impacts, importance and urgency and setting direction and expectations – in order to meet or go above and beyond for timeliness and quality of work

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):
• Master’s degree
• Expertise in design and implementation of complex IT solutions
• Technical knowledge in area of expertise
• Awareness of industry best practices and research
• Open to new insights, encouraging engagement from stakeholders and focusing individual and team work effort along the best approach
• The ability to resolve disputes and produce an agreement, that is perceived as a collective advantage to all parties involved. Involves the ability to tailor the process, behavior and substance of the negotiation in order to reach agreement
• The ability to handle external vendor relationships professionally, to the company’s best interests. Involves managing and negotiating contracts, statements of work and financials. Ability to hold vendors accountable to high standards of performance